A strong team: The Friday Man
| Episode in the series A strong team | |||
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| Original title | The Friday man | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
UFA | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 58 ( List ) | ||
| First broadcast | April 19, 2014 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Daniel helper | ||
| script | Leo P. Ard | ||
| production | Michaela Nix | ||
| music |
Wolfram de Marco Ludwig Eckmann Nikolaus Glowna |
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| camera | Stefan Ditner | ||
| cut | Anton Korndörfer | ||
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Friday Man is a German television film by Daniel Helfer from 2014. It is the 58th episode of the crime series A strong team with Maja Maranow and Florian Martens in the lead roles.
action
The branch manager of a supermarket is shot dead when he tries to hand over the proceeds to the messenger after the shop has closed on Friday evening. Based on the video recordings, it can be assumed that the victim knew the masked perpetrator. Chief Detective Verena Berthold and colleague Otto Garber initially suspect the previously convicted warehouse worker Oliver Brumbach, who was only recently released, of stealing the 130,000 euros. Since he has an alibi for the time of the crime, the investigations are concentrated on Stefanie König, one of the branch managers Witting's cashiers, who raped a few days ago. Her husband, Christian, who has been unemployed for two years, has been suspected of having inherited a small collection of weapons, one of which is missing a pistol. Christian König is therefore provisionally arrested.
But then exactly one week later there is another attack, this time on Witting's deputy Rolf Blanke, who is temporarily the new branch manager. Since a crowbar with Brumbach's fingerprints was found near the crime scene, the investigators took the supermarket robber, dubbed "Friday Man" by the press, into custody. However, a shot has never been fired from his pistol. In addition, the pistol from König's weapon collection reappears. Julia Roggenkamp, a colleague of Stefanie König and another of Witting's rape victims, had stolen the gun, but then couldn't find the courage to shoot her boss.
Roggenkamp also states that she saw Michael Seiters, who worked as a sales consultant in the market some time ago, in the parking lot on the evening of the first attack. The investigation reveals that his fourteen-year-old daughter Lea was also raped by Witting as a temporary worker. The saliva sample submitted by Seiters now shows a match with the DNA found at the scene of the murder. But his lawyer presents the astonished inspector Seiters' twin brother Christian Seiters, who gives his brother an alibi for the evening in question.
Investigator Ben Kolberg learns from a friend in the tax investigation that Witting's successor, Blanke, has opened a deposit account for 130,000 euros. He admitted to the police that Michael Seiters called him on the eve of the murder to ask him to call it a little earlier the next evening. The day after, he found a package with 130,000 euros in front of his apartment door. Together with Blanke, the commissioners now want to set a trap. He could have the parcel with his fingerprints for another 130,000 euros. But Seiters does not appear at the agreed meeting point. Instead, Blanke is overwhelmed by Christian Seiters in front of his apartment door and forced into his car. In the meantime, Verena Berthold learns that Christian Seiters is Lea's biological father and that her mother informed her about the rape. Otto Garber and Ben Kolberg, who brought Blanke home, are notified by Berthold and can stop Seiters at the last minute.
background
Friday husband was in Berlin turned and April 19, 2014 20:15 o`clock ZDF erstausgestrahlt.
Sputnik , whose role as a businessman in the series is laid out as a running gag , opens a moving and clearing company in this episode.
criticism
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm only give a medium rating (thumbs straight) and say: "After the rather chalking first third, the actual criminal case is bogged down in increasingly implausible twists."
Web links
- A strong team: The Friday man in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Friday man at fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ A strong team: The Friday Man at TV Spielfilm , accessed on April 8, 2018.